Comments on: The Insecure Critic | Why I Love Streets http://www.downtownphoenixjournal.com/2010/01/22/insecure-critic-love-streets/ Explore Your Core Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Will Novak http://www.downtownphoenixjournal.com/2010/01/22/insecure-critic-love-streets/comment-page-1/#comment-1908 Will Novak Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:33:49 +0000 http://www.phoenixdowntownjournal.com/?p=6686#comment-1908 Very nice post, you are indeed correct with your astute observation about the controlled nature of sprawl. If you haven't read Jane Jacobs' "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" you ought to as it talks a lot about what you're talking about here. People often cry about sprawl and seem to define it as any new development with repetitive looking buildings thats far away from the Central Core, but its really the street lay out that makes the defining difference in my mind. Here's a nice image I found online showing a traditional city layout vs a sprawl layout and how even if 2 buildings are separated by the same distance, in a sprawl layout its much more controlled and difficult to get where you're going: http://tinyurl.com/y8735oj Very nice post, you are indeed correct with your astute observation about the controlled nature of sprawl. If you haven’t read Jane Jacobs’ “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” you ought to as it talks a lot about what you’re talking about here. People often cry about sprawl and seem to define it as any new development with repetitive looking buildings thats far away from the Central Core, but its really the street lay out that makes the defining difference in my mind.

Here’s a nice image I found online showing a traditional city layout vs a sprawl layout and how even if 2 buildings are separated by the same distance, in a sprawl layout its much more controlled and difficult to get where you’re going:

http://tinyurl.com/y8735oj

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